RIDING TO BAGHDAD - is it safe?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2024
- Today's episode is a wild one... Join us as we take on the big ride from Erbil in Kurdistan Iraq, to Baghdad, the capital of Federal Iraq. Along the way we pass through no less than 11 military checkpoints and spend the entire day to ride the 370km journey. Arriving in Baghdad we are faced with heavy traffic and suffocating 50degC heat! But thankfully we make it safely and meet Saif of the Iraq Bikers, who guides in to a hotel in the centre.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Introduction
0:38 Leaving Erbil
2:40 first military checkpoint
4:55 Arriving in Federal Iraq
8:47 Iraq desert
10:49 Checkpoint 11!
13:10 Arriving in Baghdad
13:35 Riding in 50deg heat!!
14:45 Meeting Saif Iraq Biker
15:45 Riding in to Baghdad city centre
16:50 Next video teaser
Our government need to work hard to simplify tourism procedures... Welcome to Iraq (Mesopotamia)...⚘️❤️🇮🇶
Yes agreed - but its good the military is keep the tourists safe.
Great that you have arrived in Baghdad, both very determined, you are a good team. Wow the heat! Have ridden in 40C and thought that was my limit. Also great you have linked up with bikers in Baghdad and hope to see more of them and the city ion the next video. Thank you.
Thanks, Rick! My god the heat was tough - never felt anything like it. But glad to have arrived safe.
That statue is of a Peshmerga, originally with a Kurdish flag. It was built during the ISIS period when Kurdistan stepped up to protect Kirkuk from ISIS. But what did the Shia Arabs do? As a thanks, they kicked the Kurds out of Kirkuk after the ISIS threat was over and started to oppress the Kurdish population, and they replaced the flag with an Iraqi flag. Because of the oil, the government wants to keep Kirkuk in the federalpart of Iraq. There don't want the Kurds get access to the extra oil income. Meanwhile, the innocent population of Kirkuk suffered. That is the story behind the statue. Thank you for visiting Iraq, I hope you had a good time and I am looking forward to your next adventure.
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Thank you for telling us this - its important to know.
Wow. What a place to ride. Well done guys 👏🏻👏🏻
Not somewhere we ever thought we be...!
Loving these vidz, can’t believe you only popped up in my feed today 🤷🏻♂️🤯
cheers mate! enjoy!
Another great video, it’s been a little while since your last but great to see you back. You two are just amazing!! Ride safe and looking forward to the next one.
Nice video, you are the inspiration of me starting with TH-cam video on my motorcycle trips. Do continue!
Awesome! best of luck with it!
No way u did this in summer in iraq 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
haha a little crazy..?
You two are so much tougher than me!
Tiger Barb and I had a 5 hour ride in 27° temps, and I whinged about the heat every time I came to a stop light!😂
Also, our trip to Montréal didn't have any military checkpoints.
I love your videos, and this was great, too!
Thanks
Dave "Tiger" Coward 🇨🇦
hahahaha we were the same when starting the trip and coming in to the hotter countries!! but slowly we built some tolerance... even so, 50C was disgusting! Thanks, Dave!
By the way was there any speeding limits and did you have to apply for a international driving permit? (asking because I’m going to visit a friend in Sulaymaniyah and I’m starting the trip in Karbala)
Hey! Of course there were speed limits but I can't remember what they were. I don't actually recall seeing many signs though. But we generally ride at a fairly slow cruising speed on highways anyway. Yes we carried an IDP but were never asked to see it.
what's Baghdad like compared to Erbil?
Parts of Baghdad have a similar feeling to Erbil, in terms of being developed and vibrant, but then Erbil has the historic centre and citadel, which I don't think Baghdad has, also Baghdad still has some signs of the war in some areas. Erbil had a more relaxed and safer feeling - we walked around everywhere. I can't say whether Baghdad is actually any more or less safe, but with the military/police everywhere and the recent protests, we didn't feel like we should wander around at night - but we were fortunate to meet the Iraq bikers who showed us around.
Probably we didn't spend long enough in either city to give a proper comparison!
Come to Qatar Habibi
Haha maybe we come next time! We already finished our trip :)
Well done guys, I definitely couldn't handle that heat.🤔 Question tho, what did the flights cost 😉
Haha we almost couldn't either! The flights from Erbil to Baghdad were something like $50 each - not expensive.
Nice video too 🔥 🥵 for me I'd melt 😆
Haha we nearly did!
When you say go Baghdad in Kurdish chake point he say go go go in Kurdish the don’t care about Baghdad 😅
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